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Spring is here in the Northern Hemisphere, and Summer is right around the corner. Millions of holidays/vacations have been cancelled over the last 2-3 months, including the lucrative Easter period and now the ‘half-term’ school holidays in June. Next up is the Summer season itself.
Borders remain closed. Even if they open, I don’t think we can expect very many people to be taking overseas holidays in Europe. How do you fancy a ‘socially-distanced hotel ? How do you like the idea of standing in a line 2 metres apart to get food/drink at a bar/restaurant ? Then you have to find a table that allows you to get sat down then get up again, without getting within 2 metres of anyone else. How do like the idea of sitting around a pool trying to stay 2 metres apart from everyone else, and wear a mask in 90 degree heat ? We haven’t even mentioned the difficulty of socially distancing at an airport, or in an aeroplane.
Time is running out fast to find a solution. Without one, the entire European Economy will collapse this year. Tens of millions, possibly hundreds of millions will be without work. Life after the lockdown could be a lot worse than the situation we find ourselves in now. We need to hope the virus recedes rapidly and all such restrictions can be dropped entirely. Anything less than that will deter people from spending their money on what will be a very strange holiday experience. It could be game over for pretty much the entire hospitality/travel sector.
Test everyone. Regularly. Self quarantine if needed. Reopen everything… no masks.. no social distancing. Back to normal.
I wish it was that easy Patrick, but on a planet of almost 8 billion people, that’s a lot of tests on a daily basis. I’m not sure if you could trust individuals to do it every day (pointless unless you do it every day because you can catch it an hour after taking the test and pass it onto someone else if you’re not social-distancing). Not sure if the state could conduct and process the tests for every citizen, every day.
We can’t even trust people to do social distancing. My 5 year cried because he couldnt play with his front door neighbors. Lots of collateral damage in progress. All the money spent in helicopter money because rgey closed down the economy.. could of easily paid for 100s of test per people to self test. I don’t get it. Maybe I’m wrong.
I live in a resort area of the Great Lakes in the US. Our entire County is totally dependent on tourism. Businesses are very worried about the upcoming Summer season. This week golf courses were able to open. Only one person to a power cart and no touching any common areas like the flag poles. It is encouraging at least. We are scheduled to remain on lockdown until May 26th (so far). It seems to me that way too much emphasis is being placed on waiting for a vaccine. That could take years. Maybe many years. And maybe never. An all-out global effort should be made to help everyone build up their immune system naturally. This would save many lives from this Covid-19 and also from the common flu. I have to believe that a lot of people could have been saved using the existing drugs that are already in use.
I think you may be right there PK, but it’s a case of knowing which combination of existing drugs will work for which patient. Some seem to work for some patients, whilst they make others worse. This is a fiendish enemy.
PK, I’m glad to hear that in your resort area seasonal folks would be welcomed! We will be heading up north for summer, and earlier got letters from city and county saying they did not want downstate folks coming up (bringing Covid), and the Gov banned travel to vacation homes. But from what you’re saying, it sounds like businesses in resort areas should be welcoming an influx; and now our ban is lifted, so it’s looking good.
And since we’ve already had Covid, we most probably wont be spreading it up there. We’re almost certain we have antibodies because we got definite reinfection symptoms earlier this week, and yet fully recovered within 2 1/2 days of onset. The first round took a VERY slow 5 weeks. All Good. 🙂
GLAD TO HEAR YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM IS WORKING TO THE MAX ALFA8
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Hi NS, I read an article this week that stated 1/3 of all Air BnB hosts owned more than 24 properties! As you can imagine they all leveraged the system to acquire said properties. Sadly, this is all working through the system. Anybody that believes this is all riding on a vaccine is sadly mistaken.
Indeed AM. Things are going to get considerably worse in the not too distant future.